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OT: American Politics

zeke said:
LoF is shocked and suprised.
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I'm neither. This is the long-established situation. The fact that they're enforcing the laws more now is not surprising.

I had to shift from one visa to another for years, even having to abandon my first green card application because I was switching jobs and it's not transferable from one to another, and then had to do it all over, and then the citizenship application after that. I endured a lot of worry, expense, and inconvenience over immigration stuff for 20+ years. So I get the process, and I also have an appreciation for doing things within the confines of the law.

My endless frustration with the situation though is that they don't open up a few legitimate pathways for productive members of society who literally can't qualify in another way and never will. The marriage way was literally the only possibility of a springboard to status, and if they're closing even that one off, it's terrible.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I'm neither. This is the long-established situation. The fact that they're enforcing the laws more now is not surprising.

I had to shift from one visa to another for years, even having to abandon my first green card application because I was switching jobs and it's not transferable from one to another, and then had to do it all over, and then the citizenship application after that. I endured a lot of worry, expense, and inconvenience over immigration stuff for 20+ years. So I get the process, and I also have an appreciation for doing things within the confines of the law.

My endless frustration with the situation though is that they don't open up a few legitimate pathways for productive members of society who literally can't qualify in another way and never will. The marriage way was literally the only possibility of a springboard to status, and if they're closing even that one off, it's terrible.
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And by the way, I can understand not having the pathway just exist in perpetuity for all future migrants because that would incentivize people to come in illegally and then just hop onto that path. But there are a million and one reasons for creating a pathway for people that are already here, and some for decades, to shore up the situation internally while closing the gate externally and only allowing future migrants in through the proper channels only.
 
Oversimplified to serve your particular bias.

To think there's no immigration problem in the US is disingenuous, but this sweeping approach is not the way to address it.

And many millions of foreigners have been granted status over the years, including this one.
 
Turns out Dotard meant what he said about immigration at his hate rallies.

These three-time Trump voters will vote for him a 4th time in 2028 as well.
 
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